Vacant Post(grad)
OUSU announced this Tuesday that Catherine Sangster has resigned as VP-Graduates due to concerns over her thesis.
News: Marched Out
THE MARCH FOR Equality set to mark the end of OUSU's Diversity Week ended in embarrassment this Saturday as almost no students turned out to watch or join in the reported "highlight" of the weeks events.
News: Grants for Welsh students
Welsh students are set to receive maintenance grants from September, the Welsh education minister Jane Davidson has announced.
News: Domino Effect
Corpus Christi JCR has accidentally disaffiliated from both OUSU and the NUS following a farcical JCR meeting last Sunday.
News: Oxford's Romance budding
The Valentines launch of the Oxford University dating website 'Oxford Romance' offers the opportunity for single students to find their perfect match on the internet.
News: Cardinals fountain runs dry
Significantly fewer people than usual attended the recent Cardinals' Cocktails. The event, held in the Town Hall last Wednesday by the Christ Church drinking society, was criticised by many guests as lacking in atmosphere.
News: Thoro-ux fan
A packed chamber was treated to more than it expected last Thursday night when Louis Theroux turned up at the Union media debate.
News: New Straw controversy
Will Straw has been accused of abusing his position, in his capacity as ex-JCR President of New College and OUSU President-elect in relation to a controversial motion.
News: Will wins
Oxford students have been celebrating this week after Will was named ITV's Pop Idol, writes Rodrigo Davies.
News: Armistice in college wars
Just over a week after Oriel's declaration of war against Pembroke, JCR presidents have, following Pembroke, "ceased all hostilities."
News: News in Brief
THE POLICE HAVE told Oxford City Council that beggars in Oxford are using The Big Issue magazine as a front for demanding handouts.
News: Waste Not Want Not
It always starts innocently enough. A keen young Treasurer, scouting through the accounts, desperately trying to scrape together enough money to pay for that vital JCR glitter ball, comes across a mysterious payment. NUS affiliation: 1500 odd pounds. Ah, the NUS! He remembers vaguely the reception of three gross of posters sometime in October declaring 'The NUS is behind you'. He recalls those five hundred plastic cups received last July recommending temperate drinking to the youth of today. He can even conjure up some memory of a national demonstration of some kind. Was it about fees? But what comes to mind most vividly is the External Affairs Rep railing for hours about the NUS Conference. The craven Blairite careerism of the National Executive Committee! The unproductive ranting of their opponents amongst Young Militant Tendency! And an idea begins to form in our treasurer's calculating mind......